where do you talk skip on ssb?

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Re: where do you talk skip on ssb?

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Last Sunday morning on LSB 38, was pulling in Canada's Prince Edward Island (PEI) clear as a bell ... then, a host of California stations; notably Monterey.

This with a wire dipole 1/4 wave, aligned east-west.

A local here (North Florida) with a better antenna was getting back to California, too. Talking about their quake.
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Re: where do you talk skip on ssb?

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mudder wrote:I find talking skip on lsb on ch 38 seems to get the most contacts.what about you? :Peace!:
If you want to carry on long QSO's, I hear a sweet spot people use on 27.380.
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Re: where do you talk skip on ssb?

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I hang out on 27.385 LSB (if it gets offensive) I'll trot off to 27.415LSB.

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I was listening in on quite a bit of skip on 38 and 39 LSB today. Was running around town and didn't get a chance to try to talk back.
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37,38 and 39 LSB
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during good conditions my little 5 watt AM and base antenna seems to do the trick even with a 2.2 swr althou when I had everything up to snuff with my madison and tuned ant. I was going around the world on less than 3 watts!
that said I was unable to ever get connected to Albuquerque which is only ~400 miles away. must be an node/anti-node phasing problem....probably some dang old meteorite in between sucking up all the bleeps. :ugeek:
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27.555 USB
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channels 37,38,39,40 Lower side. I think the trick is all in the receive, must have a better than average antenna and a radio that is "open".(incoming signal is not filtered or squelched out of existence), it also helps if you have variable freq. RX tuning along with adjustable TX freq.

once i got all my stuff set up, i hear skip almost anytime, from everywhere. can usually talk back to them too.
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-- Fri Nov 11, 2016 3:46 am --

been sorta dead so hangin on 19 and talking to the truckers. waiting for 38L to break open. :bounce:
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hey everyone been on the cb forever but ive never talked on side band how do you go abouts doing this just get a radio with the lower side band and also can i use one of my class C amplifiers on it thanks guys Humboldt CA wave'nn
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if this is the wrong place to post that im sorry tried reading topics but there is so much just listed its troublesum for real just feel like im talking to or trying to talk to anyone also no response on like two topics or so and been a couple days is it because the site is so big or what any way how do you get to lower side band and can you use class C amp
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Made a few contacts on 27.385 LSB. Heard Canada, Australia and the west coast USA. Only made contact with Oregon, and California on LSB. :basketball:
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38 L, W5M313, why doesn't anyone use USB?
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marven wrote: April 11th, 2006, 7:00 pm I'm going to say this again. I like SSB!! I am going to put up the list as complete as I can and update it.
I'm not trying to get into a ****** contest with anyone!! I was and still am trying to help anyone interested in SSB. I use am, fm, usb & lsb.
I am a member of several SSB clubs and joining more. It is my feverent hope that others will try it and like it. The clubs have been a fun and fond time for me, I want to help expand that to others if I can help.
I am working 12- 20 hours a day, as I'm sure others are also. But I will take the time to do the list. Hopefully will have most of it tommarrow.
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Marven, I sure hope you are still around the board. I just recented joined in here and have just picked up a SSB rig. I am planning to have it up and running by the end of May. Hopefully around then I'll be able to be learnin' a lot more from you and the other folks in here.

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